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Unlicensed Driver Nabbed By Saddle Brook Police Officer Turns Out To Be Escaped Fugitive

A Saddle Brook patrol officer making a traffic stop caught an escaped fugitive from Kentucky.

Peter J. Griffin

Peter J. Griffin

Photo Credit: COURTESY: Franklin County (KY) Sheriff

Officer Joseph Scrafani ran a computer check after stopping the vehicle on eastbound Route 46 and discovered not only that Peter J. Griffin, 33, Route 46 had both a suspended driver's license and registration.

He was also wanted on a fugitive warrant out of Franklin County.

Griffin escaped from a minimum-security facility after being convicted in January 2016 of first-degree methamphetamine possession, records show.

He remained held in the Bergen County Jail pending extradition proceedings after county sheriff’s officers collected him in Saddle Brook.

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